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[Ripclawe]

this is going to be horrendous....

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/exclusive-...s-victims-cyberattacks-024345910--sector.html

Target Corp and Neiman Marcus are not the only U.S. retailers whose networks were breached over the holiday shopping season last year, according to sources familiar with attacks on other merchants that have yet to be publicly disclosed.

Smaller breaches on at least three other well-known U.S. retailers took place and were conducted using similar techniques as the one on Target, according to the people familiar with the attacks. Those breaches have yet to come to light. Also, similar breaches may have occurred earlier last year.

The sources said that they involved retailers with outlets in malls, but declined to elaborate. They also said that while they suspect the perpetrators may be the same as those who launched the Target attack, they cannot be sure because they are still trying to find the culprits behind all of the security breaches.

Law enforcement sources have said they suspect the ring leaders are from Eastern Europe, which is where most big cyber crime cases have been hatched over the past decade.

Only one well-known retailer, Neiman Marcus, has said that they too have been victim of a cyber attack since Target's December 19 disclosure that some 40 million payment card numbers had been stolen in a cyber attack. On Friday, Target said the data breach was worse than initially thought.

 

[xKilltheMx]

Why is this being ignored?

 

[Particle Physicist]

Wow...

 

[B.K.]

I'm really surprised no one has managed to break Amazon's security yet. As many people that use it, I would think it would be a prime target for hackers. They must have some really good security.

 

[MIMIC]

Saw the Neiman Marcus blurb on CNN earlier today. Had no idea other retailers (aside from Target and Neiman Marcus) were involved.

 

[Nelo Ice]

O this should be fun.

 

[BeardyChan]

I'm really surprised no one has managed to break Amazon's security yet. As many people that use it, I would think it would be a prime target for hackers. They must have some really good security.

You don't mess with the place you buy all your stolen goods from.

 

[entremet]

These retailers need to beef up their security.

But to be fair, US doesn't even have chip and pin, which is embarrassing.

 

[Pingoreous]

Am tired of remembering 30 passwords for various sites and all hackers have to do is hack the source.

 

[Deku Tree]

Terrible. I want names.

 

[blame space]

names, cards, PINs.. I want it all

 

[thespot84]

Am tired of remembering 30 passwords for various sites and all hackers have to do is hack the source.

lastpass is your friend

 

[Pingoreous]

lastpass is your friend

I might give this a shot, but you miss my point. We make an effort to create elaborate passwords, hacker just forgets about us the customers and hacks the site.

 

[Kalnos]

KeePass is your friend

Fixed.

 

[gcubed]

There should be more outrage and Chip and pin should be accelerated

 

[smurfx]

well chase sent me a new card so i'm not worried for now...

 

[hateradio]

That's crazy. I feel like I should only use cash in person or paypal.

I'm really surprised no one has managed to break Amazon's security yet. As many people that use it, I would think it would be a prime target for hackers. They must have some really good security.

Heheheh.

 

[MidgarBlowedUp]

You would think the NSA would know this stuff ahead of time.

 

[Tamanon]

I'm really surprised no one has managed to break Amazon's security yet. As many people that use it, I would think it would be a prime target for hackers. They must have some really good security.

I think a lot of these breaches are happening at the store level. Amazon doesn't have that extra avenue to protect.

 

[massoluk]

Who... If you want to make us panic, may as well just name the retailers.